Improvement Quotes

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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. — Berthold Auerbach
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically.… — Charles Lindbergh
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. — Brian Tracy
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really… — John C. Maxwell
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success.… — John C. Maxwell
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. — Immanuel Kant
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest… — John Ruskin
God has entrusted me with myself. — Epictetus
Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement. — Tony Robbins
Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves. — Mark Victor Hansen
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he… — Joseph Campbell
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. — Robert Foster Bennett
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent… — Leo Tolstoy
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could… — Thomas Sowell
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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